[Alioth-staff-replacement] improved alioth-salsa test script (calls for testing/improvements)s

[Paolo Greppi]

Il 02/05/2018 18:47, Holger Levsen ha scritto:
> hi,
> 
> maybe i'm stupid but i'm also failing now with my 3rd "quick" attempt of
> migration to salsa using the script...
> 
> holger at moszumanska:~/alioth-migration$ ./migrate-repo -v -d /srv/git.debian.org/git/collab-maint/anarchism.git /debian/anarchism
> 
> (GITLAB_TOKEN was set as an environment variable.)
> 
> is what I used and on "git fetch salsa" I see a very suspicious
> "warning, no common commits" and then "git log salsa master" shows me it
> imported some other git repo i frequently use.
> 
> So i'll now just trash debian/anarchism on salsa and look at this again
> in 2 weeks or so when i have time. OTOH, if you own a "apt-get) install
> anarchism" tshirt, maybe you want to help moving the repo from
> collab-main to salsa?
> 
> (oh and the point of this mail is basically none. "it doesnt work for
> me", mostly just curious if i'm the only one who cant get it to work.
> But given i have limited time i guess i will just migrate my 20 or so
> repos manually, and save braincells for later. sorry to not being able
> to give better feedback.)
> 

Hi Holger, try this:

/alioth-migration/migrate-repo -v -d /git/collab-maint/anarchism.git /debian/anarchism

It seems the script "works better" if the path to the original repo on alioth is the shortest possible

Paolo